13. They tear up the road I walk on. They succeed in destroying me. They do it without any help.
14. They attack me like troops smashing through a wall. Among the destroyed buildings they come rolling in.
15. Terrors sweep over me. My honor is driven away as if by the wind. My safety vanishes like a cloud.
16. "Now my life is slipping away. Days of suffering grab hold of me.
17. At night my bones hurt. My gnawing pains never stop.
18. God's great power becomes like clothes to me. He chokes me like the neck of my shirt.
19. He throws me down into the mud. I'm nothing but dust and ashes.
20. "God, I cry out to you. But you don't answer me. I stand up. But all you do is look at me.
21. You do mean things to me. Your mighty hand attacks me.
22. You pick me up and blow me away with the wind. You toss me around in the storm.
23. I know that you will bring me down to death. That's what you have appointed for everyone.
24. "No one would crush people when they cry out for help in their trouble.